NFTs offer astronauts 'new outlet' to share experiences, says spaceman Scott Kelly

After celebrities, athletes and politicians jumped into the nonfungible token (NFT) mania, the increasing manufacture has pulled successful a seasoned astronaut to stock his clip successful abstraction done NFTs.

In a Cointelegraph interview, Scott Kelly, a retired United States astronaut, shared that helium has a “growing curiosity” astir blockchain exertion and NFTs. According to Kelly, helium has been keeping an oculus connected blockchain for six years and has seen its potential.

“I person developed a increasing curiosity connected however it volition play a relation successful abstraction improvement which is thing I would emotion to beryllium a portion of,” said Kelly. Because of this, the astronaut wanted to present himself to the NFT assemblage and lend to charity.

American astronaut Scott Kelly successful his abstraction suit. Source: Space.com

The seasoned spaceman precocious released an NFT postulation titled Dreams Out of This World that reimagines Kelly’s abstraction travel done respective integer artworks. The driblet sold 3,333 NFTs and collected $500,000 successful income which volition spell to the nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) to assistance radical affected by the warfare successful Ukraine: 

“The Ukraine situation is thing I clasp precise adjacent to my bosom which is wherefore we volition beryllium donating 100% of the proceeds from the archetypal merchantability done GEM successful enactment of Ukrainian relief.”

While Kelly admits that determination are galore different ways to help, the astronaut is thankful that launching an NFT postulation allowed him to assistance victims of the crisis. “I consciousness grateful to beryllium launching a task astatine a clip that allows maine to enactment them successful a mode I whitethorn person not been capable to bash connected my own,” said Kelly.

Kelly besides hopes that his introduction into the satellite of NFTs whitethorn promote different astronauts to research the manufacture arsenic well. He told Cointelegraph: 

“NFTs tin connection astronauts a caller outlet for sharing their experiences arsenic opposed to posting this connected the net wherever it tin rapidly beryllium mislaid successful the shuffle.” 

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Meanwhile, a Web3 inaugural called Reli3f raised $1.5 cardinal for Ukrainian assistance efforts. Through its 2nd NFT collection, the task raised funds that volition beryllium distributed to assorted charities focusing connected the Ukrainian crisis.